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This Drug Maker Saw the Pandemic Coming

This Drug Maker Saw the Pandemic Coming

FromPrognosis: Losing it


This Drug Maker Saw the Pandemic Coming

FromPrognosis: Losing it

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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When Covid-19 hit, Gilead Sciences Inc. had enough of its experimental drug remdesivir ready to test and start manufacturing it at a larger scale. That's because it had started stockpiling not just the drug, but its ingredients, at the first hint there may be a new coronavirus. Robert Langreth reports on why the company was able to act early to prepare for a pandemic when so many businesses and institutions did not.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
May 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.